Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens is returning to Comedy Central in August and the second season will feature the TV directorial debut of star BD Wong.
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress Sanaa Lathan will be making her feature directorial debut on Paramount Players’ adaptation of Angie Thomas’ New York Times bestseller On the Come Up.
The feature project has been a priority for Paramount Players and they were impressed with Lathan’s vision for the film, the story of which comes from the author of The Hate U Give; that novel turned into a 2019 Fox 2000 motion picture.
On The Come Up, from HarperCollins imprint Balzer & Bray, centers on 16-year-old Bri, who
Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens is returning to Comedy Central in August and the second season will feature the TV directorial debut of star BD Wong.
previously announced as the male lead and will also produce when the package was set at the Cannes film market. Ackie in “Pussy Island” will play Frida, a young, clever, Los Angeles cocktail waitress who has her eyes set on the prize: philanthropist and tech mogul Slater King (Tatum).
Without a doubt, 2021 has been a really strange year for film. With theaters being mostly shut down until recently, there were quite a few features that fell under the radar but deserve to be seen by fans.
EXCLUSIVE: Jackson White is in final negotiations to star as Judd Crandall in Paramount Players’ follow-up adaptation of the successful 2019 Pet Sematary based on Stephen King’s best seller and self-proclaimed scariest book, Pet Sematary. The film will debut exclusively on Paramount+ and begins shooting in August.
Avril Lavigne has made her TikTok debut with a clip that immediately harks back to her noughties heyday.Yesterday (June 21) saw the singer share her first video on the social media platform.
Travie McCoy has announced that he’s signed a new solo deal with Hopeless Records.The Gym Class Heroes founder and former Fueled By Ramen artist marked the news with the release of a new track called ‘A Spoonful Of Cinnamon’, which pays tribute to the people he’s lost over the past year.“This song sums up my experiences through 2020 and honours people in my life that I had lost,” he said about the new track. “There was a moment where I was getting weekly phone calls to tell me people I knew had
Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman are still going strong!
EXCLUSIVE: Julia Stiles is set to make her directing debut with Wish You Were Here, a romantic drama she co-wrote with Renée Carlino based on the latter’s novel.
Riverdale‘s Mädchen Amick has been set to make her feature directing debut with Reminisce, with two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern and Elissa Shay to star in the indie drama. It hails from FutureRetro Productions, Firehouse Films and Lucky Penny Productions, and shooting starts next month in Los Angeles.
Zoë Kravitz recently wrapped on Steven Soderbergh‘s “KIMI” and possibly learned a thing or two from one of the fastest and organic filmmakers in the game. Kravitz will make her directorial debut with”Pussy Island,” a tropical island tech thriller that she will also co-write alongside fellow screenwriter E.T.
Zoe Kravitz will be making her directorial debut with an upcoming called Pussy Island, which she also co-wrote!
Deadline explained that she began writing the film in 2017 and that the film’s title “Pussy Island” was something of a joke, but that it took on deeper meaning as conversations about sexuality have evolved. “It alludes to this time and place we claim to not be in anymore, in terms of sexual politics.
Jordan Moreau Zoë Kravitz is making her directorial debut with “Pussy Island,” a thriller starring Channing Tatum as a tech billionaire and owner of a private island.The film follows a young Los Angeles cocktail waitress named Frida, who has her sights set on tech mogul Slater King, played by Tatum. Frida makes her way into King’s inner circle and attends an intimate gathering on his private island, where she will have the journey of a lifetime.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterGina Rodriguez is teaming up with professional boxer Ryan Garcia to develop a sports drama about the athlete’s experiences as a Mexican American lightweight champion.Rodriguez, best known for The CW’s take on a telenovela “Jane the Virgin,” is directing, co-starring and producing the film.
Gina Rodriguez is stepping into the ring in what marks her directorial debut as Rodriguez, Ryan Garcia, One Community and Endeavor Content are teaming up to develop a feature film about a fictional character inspired by some of Garcia’s experiences in and around the sport as a Mexican-American boxer. Rodriguez will direct, star, produce and will co-write the screenplay with actor and playwright Bernardo Cubria. Garcia will also star star.
Emilio Mayorga Mexico’s Fotosintesis Media, producer of the Quirino Awards best feature winner “A Costume for Nicolas,” is readying Alejandra Pérez’s first movie “My Friend the Sun,” an animated family tale deeply rooted in lesser-known Mexican myths and legends.A social cause-driven entertainment label jointly launched by Jaime Romandia and Carlos Reygadas’ Mantarraya Group and writer-director Mike Uriegas, Fotosintesis Media first hit the scene in 2015 with “The Incredible Story of the Stone
VES Award-winning How To Train Your Dragon franchise alum Simon Otto has been set to make his animated feature directorial debut on Locksmith Animation’s That Christmas. Based on a trio of children’s books by writer/director Richard Curtis, and previously known as The Empty Stocking, the film is currently in development at Locksmith Animation’s studios in London.